18th century

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Edmund Burke

John Locke

Antoine Lavoisier

Alexander von Humboldt

Jeremy Bentham

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Georges Cuvier

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Samuel Johnson

Pierre Beaumarchais

Immanuel Kant

Thomas Paine

Isaac Newton

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

Adam Smith

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

Pierre de Marivaux

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet

Voltaire

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Schiller

Hans Christian Ørsted

Caroline Herschel

Jane Austen

David Hume

Mary Wollstonecraft

Denis Diderot

Sophie Germain

Carl Linnaeus